frank9755
Cyclist
- Location
- West London
Good to see both the AUK site and Yello recovered from recent outages!
Paris-Brest-Paris 2011
- Thread starter Fiona N
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Randochap
Senior hunter
- Location
- British Columbia, Canada
Best of British to everyone heading for France. I'm staying home, writing my "Road to PBP '07" on VeloWeb.
Bonne route!
Bonne route!
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Official Good Luck Message
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Best wishes to everyone undertaking this 'Grand Bimble'. you have done all the fearful qualifying stuff and now's the time to enjoy the fruits of your labour. Dark, wet nights will be replaced by warm welcoming landscapes as you all venture forth. (I keep needing to eat a Paris-Brest every time I think about the ride - that's my level of involvment
)
So, good fortune all, particularly Els, Frank and Rimas - I have been lucky enough to share a mile or two with them - to Andrew, CycleChat's 'Jaune in a maillot' and to all you others undertaking this big event. You have earned every last kilometre of this... do your best.
Allez!
(PS - don't forget to pop into 'Aux villes du Nord' and check up on the proprietor, Frank - ta!
)
Official Good Luck Message
Best wishes to everyone undertaking this 'Grand Bimble'. you have done all the fearful qualifying stuff and now's the time to enjoy the fruits of your labour. Dark, wet nights will be replaced by warm welcoming landscapes as you all venture forth. (I keep needing to eat a Paris-Brest every time I think about the ride - that's my level of involvment
)So, good fortune all, particularly Els, Frank and Rimas - I have been lucky enough to share a mile or two with them - to Andrew, CycleChat's 'Jaune in a maillot' and to all you others undertaking this big event. You have earned every last kilometre of this... do your best.
Allez!
(PS - don't forget to pop into 'Aux villes du Nord' and check up on the proprietor, Frank - ta!
)
swarm_catcher
Guru
Official Good Luck Message
Official Good Luck Message
Best wishes to everyone undertaking this 'Grand Bimble'. you have done all the fearful qualifying stuff and now's the time to enjoy the fruits of your labour. Dark, wet nights will be replaced by warm welcoming landscapes as you all venture forth. (I keep needing to eat a Paris-Brest every time I think about the ride - that's my level of involvment
So, good fortune all, particularly Els, Frank and Rimas - I have been lucky enough to share a mile or two with them - to Andrew, CycleChat's 'Jaune in a maillot' and to all you others undertaking this big event. You have earned every last kilometre of this... do your best.
Allez!
(PS - don't forget to pop into 'Aux villes du Nord' and check up on the proprietor, Frank - ta!
Merci mon ami!
frank9755
Cyclist
- Location
- West London
Thanks very much, 'Teef.
I'm getting the ferry tomorrow night followed by the familiar tap-in (not tapin) ride down to Paris on Thursday / Friday.
We are being fitted with RFID tags so that our progress can be tracked, in the style of parcels, from checkpoint to checkpoint. If anyone is interested in tracking the progress of their favourite Cyclechatters, then you can do so here:
http://www.paris-bre...vi_participants
You need to put in the number of the person you want to trace (eg mine is 5649 and I believe that Els is 5741 and Rimas (in the fast group) is 1885), then it should tell you where they have got to. There's a full list here
Of course it will give the name of a small place in France, which may not mean very much, so here is a decent map of the route:
http://cyclo-long-co...cours-pbp-2011/
I start between 6:00-7:20pm on Sunday evening (21st Aug). I expect to be at Brest very late nextTuesday Monday night and to finish either late on Wednesday night or Thursday morning. The deadline is midday-1:20pm (90 hours after I started) on Thursday (25th). Els might be keeping a similar schedule but Rimas will probably be back at work by the time I finish!
I'm getting the ferry tomorrow night followed by the familiar tap-in (not tapin) ride down to Paris on Thursday / Friday.
We are being fitted with RFID tags so that our progress can be tracked, in the style of parcels, from checkpoint to checkpoint. If anyone is interested in tracking the progress of their favourite Cyclechatters, then you can do so here:
http://www.paris-bre...vi_participants
You need to put in the number of the person you want to trace (eg mine is 5649 and I believe that Els is 5741 and Rimas (in the fast group) is 1885), then it should tell you where they have got to. There's a full list here
Of course it will give the name of a small place in France, which may not mean very much, so here is a decent map of the route:
http://cyclo-long-co...cours-pbp-2011/
I start between 6:00-7:20pm on Sunday evening (21st Aug). I expect to be at Brest very late next
Baggy
Cake connoisseur
- Location
- Where the chevrons are
Bonne chance everybody!
I'll be tracking a few frame numbers...
I'll be tracking a few frame numbers...
Tim Bennet.
Entirely Average Member
- Location
- S of Kendal
Good luck.
Hope you all enjoy it as much as I've done in the past.
Hope you all enjoy it as much as I've done in the past.
Mice
Guru
Good Luck Frank - I hope you have a great time. The ride to Paris .... what can I say?! But if you see any cows laughing in the fields you can tell them that I still don't have mudguards!
Thank you for all the tracking tips, that's great and I am looking forward to keeping up with you (virtually speaking of course!)
Am still trying to remember the name of the appley drink that appeared every so often during last months trip...
Bon chance and have a blast.
M
frank9755
Cyclist
- Location
- West London
Good Luck Frank - I hope you have a great time. The ride to Paris .... what can I say?! But if you see any cows laughing in the fields you can tell them that I still don't have mudguards!
Thank you for all the tracking tips, that's great and I am looking forward to keeping up with you (virtually speaking of course!)
Am still trying to remember the name of the appley drink that appeared every so often during last months trip...
Bon chance and have a blast.
M
Thanks M - just about to leave now.
Appley drink: cider, calvados...?
Mice
Guru
Official Good Luck Message
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Good Luck To You All!
Bon Chance Tout le Mond!
M
Official Good Luck Message
Good Luck To You All!
Bon Chance Tout le Mond!
M
DooBlood
New Member
- Location
- Warwickshire
Thanks for the well wishes, I too send on well wishes. I hope I can do this and trompe le monde! 
Thanks for the thoughts 'pero & rich.
I'm driving up tomorrow morning, it'll take around 4 hours. It's too darn humid at the moment and I hope that goes before Sunday night's departure. Forecast for thunderstorms Sunday evening and Monday afternoon so we could be in for a soaking... temperatures will still be mid 20s though! I don't think I'll bother with a rain coat, I'd get wet with or without one in those conditions!
I'm spending a few days in the UK after PBP so don't get all concerned (not that you would
) if you don't hear from me until September.
I'm driving up tomorrow morning, it'll take around 4 hours. It's too darn humid at the moment and I hope that goes before Sunday night's departure. Forecast for thunderstorms Sunday evening and Monday afternoon so we could be in for a soaking... temperatures will still be mid 20s though! I don't think I'll bother with a rain coat, I'd get wet with or without one in those conditions!
I'm spending a few days in the UK after PBP so don't get all concerned (not that you would
) if you don't hear from me until September.